Variational Principle of Classical Density Functional Theory via Levy's Constrained Search Method

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2011-04-20

arxiv.org/abs/1104.3951v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

7 pages, to appear in Phys. Rev. E

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We show that classical density functional theory can be based on the constrained search method [M. Levy, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 76, 6062 (1979)]. From the Gibbs inequality one first derives a variational principle for the grand potential as a functional of a trial many-body distribution. This functional is minimized in two stages. The first step consists of a constrained search of all many-body distributions that generate a given one-body density. The result can be split into internal and external contributions to the total grand potential. In contrast to the original approach by Mermin and Evans, here the intrinsic Helmholtz free energy functional is defined by an explicit expression that does not refer to an external potential in order to generate the given one-body density. The second step consists of minimizing with respect to the one-body density. We show that this framework can be applied in a straightforward way to the canonical ensemble.

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